Law enforcement conference

Location

Regent Hotel (Four Seasons), Sydney

Conference details

These are just some of the major public policy matters for corporate lawyers, compliance professionals, private and government sector lawyers dealing in trade practices law that the ACCC's inaugural conference on competition and consumer protection law enforcement will address:

• how does the ACCC set public enforcement priorities? — given that enforcing Australia’s competition and consumer protection laws involves both private commercial and public interest litigation
• hear from those enforcing the law, including a feature presentation by ACCC Chairman, Professor Allan Fels, on how the ACCC prioritises its enforcement work and its litigation trends
• leniency policy — what is it and how is it applied by Australia’s trade practices regulator?
• what are the trends internationally in competition and consumer law enforcement? And how does Australia’s major competition and consumer agency deal with them?
• developments in the fields of international and domestic cartels, agreements that lessen competition, misuse of market power and boycotts will also be discussed.

The judiciary recognises that the Trade Practices Act 1974 involves matters of high public policy.

• hear from those active in industry and government matters.

Valuable insights on the international perspective will be presented by the United States’ Department of Justice’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mr Jim Griffin, and the United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading Director of Cartel Investigations, Mr Adrian Walker-Smith. The community and media view will be reviewed by The Bulletin’s Mr Fred Brenchley.

• topics for debate will include changes to the law to achieve more effective enforcement outcomes
• ACCC Commissioner Sitesh Bhojani will discuss a more comprehensive leniency policy for Australian competition law enforcement.

Competition and Consumer Protection Law Enforcement Conference: 4-5 July 2002